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WINTER TRANSIT

 

Snow-dots printed on the cold;

               a puffed-up robin on a fence;

the near garden wild with old

               vegetable irrelevance;

 

A move inside the barren twigs

               as bird bolts in then leaves be

a springing of little spars and rigs

               on a sea bottom drained of sea;

... 

   

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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